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(No Model.) I. HARTMANN.

BUCKLE.

N0. Z91,7'Z6. Patented Jan. 8, 1884.

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To all whom it may concern:

specification, in which ATENT OFFicn.

IGNATZ HARTMANN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,726, dated January 8, 1884.

Application filed October 22, 1583. (No model.)

Be it known that I, IGNATZ HARTMANN,- of the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Buckles, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this Figure 1 is a view in perspective, showing the band which is attached to the buckle; Fig. 2, aview in perspective, showing a buckle and strap having the'improvement, the strap be ing unbuckled; Fig. 3, a view in perspective, showing the strap buckled.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The present invention relates especially to the band which is attached to the tongue-bar of the buckle.

A represents a buckle, and B a strap, of the ordinary kind and connected in the ordinary manner.

0 represents a band of the rectangular shape. (Shown more distinctly in Fig. 1.) The sides 0 c of this band C are perforated at c c, to receive the tonguebar a, which passes through I the sides of the band and connects it with the buckle in the manner shown in Figs. 2 and 3. It will be noticed that theperforations c c are midway between the top 0 and the bottom 0 of the band. This leaves a spacebeneath the tongue-bar through which the part b of the strap can pass, and a space above the tonguebar through which the end 12 of the strap can be passed, as shown in Fig. 3.

I am aware that buckles have been provided with double loop, and therefore do notbroadly claim such a loop; but

I elaim A double loop hinged at its center to the tongue-bar of a buckle, and extending from the tongue-bar directly upward and downward, for the purpose of binding the strap directly opposite and against the tongue bar, as described.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 17th day of October, 1883.

IGNATZ HARTMANN.

Witnesses:

PAUL BAKEWELL, J. W. RIDDLE. 

